Where Healing Happens

I'm Candace Asha and I like to dance, write poetry, and cuddle babies.

I practice Yoga with a strong focus on non-harming including, but not limited to, self-compassion and safe experience. Ahimsa, a principle of minimizing harm and injury to living things, guides much of my practice and much of my life.
For me, Yoga has been a journey of constantly-surprising change and acceptance through an exploration of the relationship between mind, body, and breath. Yoga has helped me grow more loving of myself, the world around me, and even the discomforts life brings.

Feel free to connect with me on Instagram at:

@thecando.doula for baby and birth things

@ahimsa.asha.yoga for yoga and ahimsa-related content

Yoga nidra is a guided meditation technique or a vehicle to take yourself into deeper states of rest, relaxation, and awareness. Additional benefits include the release of anxiety & tension (muscular, emotional, and mental), training the mind, enhanced memory, and increased learning capacity. It is also the powerful distillation and culmination of yoga philosophy into a simple posture of lying comfortably on the back for the class duration. It is suited to 'beginners' and 'experts' alike.

Pure Life Ayur Yoga (PLAY) is a company whose mission is to educate, promote, and encourage a lifestyle of total health for the individual and the environment using the sciences of Yoga and Ayurveda.

From an ayurvedic perspective, PLAY will consult with the individual based on their current lifestyle patterns regarding diet, exercise, rest, and sadhana or spiritual practice (if any) in order to carry out its mission. It is not a pre-requisite to be initiated into yoga or any type of spiritual practice in order for one to obtain the knowledge necessary for living in accord with nature.

From a yogic perspective, PLAY will provide the option for the individual to receive lessons in hatha yoga (postures), pranayama (breath control), meditation (dhyana) or all of the above. The individual can opt to learn more about Babaji’s Kriya Yoga through the practice of the 18 posture sequence, or a personalized sequence of postures specific to ones’ dosha, or constitution according to the laws of ayurveda.

The combination of yoga and ayurveda is a very traditional pairing and it is linked to classical yoga, a system which is highly effective for attaining pure health and awareness.

The service offered by PLAY will benefit its customer through:

~education on how to live a deeper, more fulfilling life using natural, time-tested, scientific methods
~allowing its customer to actively take charge of their own health
~giving its customer the ability to truly feel good on many levels
~positive and trusting interaction
~spiritual progression

PLAY is available to conduct workshops and classes within a local yoga studio or comparable space. Contact Premadasa directly if interested in private sessions.

Follow Premadasa 

Website https://playuyoga.com/
Instagram IG: @premadasa108
FB:  Pure Life Ayur Yoga - PLAY

 Michelle is humbled to always be a student, when one teaches two learn. 
 A 500 RYT with additional training in stress, trauma, and resiliency. 
 As a first responder she knows first hand the benefit of the traditional practice of yoga through breath, movement, meditation, and mindfulness in building self preservation.

Asha Thomas is from Edmonton AB, where she lives with her partner, two children, and pets. Asha spent almost two decades as an early childhood specialist, working with children in various settings. During the birth and postpartum of her first born, she realized child development begins at the conception of the child, and how the parent(s) are treated antenatal, prenatal and postpartum impacts the early development as a whole. Asha suffered through postpartum depression and post traumatic stress disorder from the birth of her son, starting a forever journey of healing. 

Certified iRest Teacher, C-IAYT, E-RYT500, BSc

Alina is a full-time Certified Yoga Therapist /Trauma Informed & Pain Care Aware Teacher Trainer/ Certified iRest Teacher/Registered Yoga Teacher  with  more than 11,000 hours of teaching experience and over 1,500 hours training with expert teachers. Her formal education as an engineer combined with her extensive Yoga Therapy Training has placed her into an elite and emerging category known as a 'Human Body Engineer'. Alina has the knowledge and experience to quickly and easily recognize structural and functional issues of the body. She has keen observation skills and a high degree of sensitivity to recognize and also assist with various emotional issues. Her intuition combined with her extensive ongoing training  allows her to suggest tailored personalized practices. She's an energetic and enthusiastic Yoga Therapist who skillfully assists her clients on their path to health and wellness. As a Teacher Trainer, Alina has nurtured many others to teach and share her passion of the various styles and forms of yoga that she utilizes. Her current endeavors includes teaching specialty yoga classes online, yoga & meditation classes for GoodLife Fitness (since 2007), 200 & 300 hour yoga teacher trainer (since 2011) along with being Education Director for The Internal Peace Initiative Yoga School (since 2015). 

Teacher Specialty

Chronic Pain

College

General

Sleep/Insomnia

Veterans

Additional Teacher Specialty

Motor Vehicle Accident Recovery

Follow Alina
Instagram @alivebyalina
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Alivebyalina
Website A-Live by Alina Yoga Therapy Ayurveda and Wellness
Yoga School https://www.yogaalliance.org/SchoolPublicProfile?sid=5895&lid=7266#:~:text=register%20with...-,The%20Internal%20Peace%20Initiative%20is%20a%20Registered%20Yoga%20School%20(RYS,Registered%20Yoga%20Teachers%20(RYTs).

Lisa is an Ayurvedic bodyworker, a Reiki Master, a Yoga teacher with a focus on pre/postnatal, and a postpartum care specialist. She is a Mama to 3 kiddos who ground her…and keep her on her feet!

The woods are her happy place.

Connect with Lisa through her website http://www.wiserootstherapies.com or on Instagram at http://www.Instagram.com/wiserootstherapies

Joshuelle Solomon is a birth and postpartum doula, and yoga instructor. She works with new and expecting parents as they navigate pregnancy birth and the postpartum period. Her practice is rooted in the powers of science, storytelling, spirit, and community.

She currently serves the Toronto/GTA community, but you can also find her online @babylove.doula and in her new-parent group for Black folks “The Parenthood”.

Rebecca mentors women busting through their own barriers to live in a way that's most authentic and meaningful to them. She gets very excited about the changes you're facing because transformative shifts have continued to help her live the life of her dreams. By working with Rebecca, you loosen any grip the past may have on you - so that you can focus more on where you're going than where you've been. 

Website:

https://www.rebeccaogilvie.com

Facebook and IG handle:

@rebeccaogilviewellness

Free Beginners guide to meditation:

https://www.rebeccaogilvie.com/beginners-guide-to-meditation

A guided relaxation to settle your mind, connect with your body and prepare you to tune into your intuition.

Leslie is an intuitive expert. She helps busy women who feel overwhelmed, confused, angry and unheard/unseen, tune into their own intuitive powers to feel more calm, centered and connected. She is the creator of Intuitive Restoration™, a healing technique to tune into the divine whispers of your soul.

Follow Leslie
IG handle @leslie.wendland

Download Leslie's FREE intuitive guide:
https://www.lesliewendland.com

Mel is the owner of MelO Wellness. She considers herself to be a multi-passionate individual and firm believer in trusting the wisdom of our bodies. She is a Conscious Parenting advocate (doula) and Energetic Life Coach (yoga instructor, Reiki practitioner, Human Design reader, and Let Your Body Lead facilitator).

What does that really mean? We all want to be seen, heard, and understood; to show up as our true, authentic selves. She supports individuals in unlearning their conditioning and relearning how to tune into their gut, intuition, and deep inner knowing to show up for themselves and those around them. Mel holds space and supports individuals as they find ways to use their energy and energy from the Universe to live their best, ease-filled, joy-filled life.

 On Sunday, June 20th at 8pm, Mel is hosting a virtual workshop about making the second half of 2021 AMAZING. How do you want it to feel, and what do you hope to achieve? She’ll share how we can use Human Design to make the rest of the year feel stellar, to achieve our wildest dreams and make our desires reality. She’ll guide you through an embodiment practice to get clear on the next steps to in your action place. And you’ll have a chance to chat with others and build community.

Find more info, email Mel at [email protected] or on IG & Facebook @melo_wellness